California man lights his 73-year-old mom on fire, surrenders after standoff with SWAT team

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Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s and Rancho Cucamonga Fire officials work the scene of a barricaded suspect in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

SWAT members leave the scene at the end of a barricaded suspect in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A SWAT member leaves the scene at the end of a barricaded suspect in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s and Rancho Cucamonga Fire officials work the scene after a barricaded suspect gave up in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s vehicle follows the ambulance carrying the suspect at the end of a barricade situation in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

The suspect, Gilbert Banuelos, 54, is taken to an ambulance after the end of a barricade in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Banuelos was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

SWAT members leave the scene at the end of a barricaded suspect in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

The suspect, Gilbert Banuelos, 54, is taken to an ambulance after the end of a barricade in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Banuelos was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

Rancho Cucamonga Sheriff’s and Rancho Cucamonga Fire officials work the scene after a barricaded suspect gave up in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A SWAT vehicle leaves the scene at the end of a barricaded suspect in the 13000 block of Vine Street in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Gilbert Banuelos, 54, was taken into custody after allegedly setting his mother on fire and then barricading himself in the home for six hours. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)

A man barricaded inside a Rancho Cucamonga home was arrested by SWAT deputies midday Monday, Aug. 19, after an hours-long standoff that started when his 73-year-old mother fled the residence and said he had set her on fire, authorities said.

The woman was hospitalized in critical condition, San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said, but she managed to run from the home in the 13000 block of Vine Street after she was allegedly attacked around 6 a.m. and get help from a neighbor.

The man gave up just after noon on Monday, Aug. 19, after a more than five-hour standoff, but only after gas was introduced in the home, followed by less-than-lethal force when he exited, Miller said. “He was not compliant” after he left the house, she said. He was taken away by ambulance.

The man was identified by Miller as Gilbert Banuelos, 54, who Miller said is on probation — post release community supervision — stemming from a resisting police officer case. On Monday, he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, deputies said.

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